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The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word ‘wife’ on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car.

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A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who were using wit to sort of battle their way through. And it seems to me that a lot of contemporary U.S. comedies are shot through with losers. None of the characters in ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ for instance, are studs.

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When I read Rush Limbaugh’s ‘The Way Things Ought to Be,’ it was like a page-turning thriller to me. Every page was like some new revelation.

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June 5, 2024

When I read Rush Limbaugh’s ‘The Way Things Ought to Be,’ it was like a page-turning thriller to me. Every page was like some new revelation.

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June 5, 2024

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who were using wit to sort of battle their way through. And it seems to me that a lot of contemporary U.S. comedies are shot through with losers. None of the characters in ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ for instance, are studs.

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The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word ‘wife’ on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car.

Stephen Merchant